Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/10/10/06:10:15
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> However, I don't use the Cygwin port of Emacs (yet?), so I also do not
> know the status of using "emacs -nw" from a remote shell.
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> Has anyone tried this? Does it work?
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Hi
I have NT4.0, latest cygwin, Exceed for X-windows emulation and Exceed
telnetd.
I let cygwin-setup install 'emacs with X toolkit'.
Summary: in my configuration, emacs -nw does not work using telnet.
I tried the following:
- use exceed to open on xterm on a Linux machine
- from there telnet to my NT machine
- I execute \cygwin\cygwin.bat to get my cygwin environment
this sort of works, but the terminal display rather screwed up
- I try to improve on this using
export TERM=xterm
- I do
export DISPLAY=myNT:0
emacs
and yes! there comes an X window version of emacs up, just like it happens
when I did the 2 above lines on my NT machine locally. (ok, no surprise
maybe)
- I now do
emacs -nw
and things go very wrong. emacs does start. You see things happening on the
screen,
but it's all jumbled up (it's even worse without the TERM statement). I
can't really do a thing. When I try to quit with ctrl-X ctrl-C I hear a beep
when I press the ctrl-C and that's it. I can't get out. Have to quit telnet
by hand.
Maybe playing around with the CYGWIN_TTY environment variable would help
(but I didn't find any doc on that one).
Of course, using another telnetd might also improve matters. (Is cygwin's
telnetd good and easy to install these days?)
Kris
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